Marketable Securities

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Marketable Securities [Abstract]

Marketable Securities

Note E — Marketable Securities

     As of June 30, 2011, the Company has $25.1 million invested in high quality, investment grade debt securities, consisting of $21.8 million invested in U.S. treasury bills and $3.3 million invested in a mutual fund. At September 30, 2010, the Company’s marketable securities included $31.0 million invested in high quality, investment grade debt securities, consisting of $25.7 million invested in U.S. treasury bills, $3.1 million invested in a mutual fund and $2.2 million invested in CDs. The Company is reporting an unrealized loss of $359,000 related to the mutual fund investment as of June 30, 2011; the unrealized loss was $413,000 at September 30, 2010. The Company currently considers this unrealized loss to be temporary.

     Marketable securities are classified as available for sale and are carried at fair value, with unrealized gains or losses included as a separate component of shareholders’ equity. The cost and fair value of available-for-sale securities were as follows:

			Unrealized
	Cost		Loss			Fair Value
June 30, 2011	$	25,468,949	$	(359,428	)	$	25,109,521
September 30, 2010	$	31,379,590	$	(412,583	)	$	30,967,007

     Losses recognized are recorded in Other income (expense), in the consolidated statements of operations. Gains and losses from the sale of investments are calculated based on the specific identification method.

     The Company applies the accounting standards set forth in ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, for financial assets and liabilities that are re-measured and reported at fair value at each reporting period. Fair value is defined as the price that would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. ASC 820 requires that fair value measurements be classified and disclosed using one of the following three categories:

     Level 1. Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;

     Level 2. Inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices for identical or similar assets in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities; or

     Level 3. Inputs that are unobservable for the asset or liability and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

     The Company has determined that the values given to its marketable securities are appropriate and are measured using Level 1 inputs.